Posted on 01/26/2024 6:12:45 PM PST by Gena Bukin
SAG-AFTRA deplored the AI-generated graphic images of Taylor Swift that went viral on X (formerly Twitter) this week, calling the content “upsetting, harmful, and deeply concerning” in a statement issued on Friday.
“The development and dissemination of fake images — especially those of a lewd nature — without someone’s consent must be made illegal,” the union said, while also calling support to Congressman Joe Morelle’s Preventing Deepfakes of Intimate Images Act to combat the practice. “As a society, we have it in our power to control these technologies, but we must act now before it is too late. We support Taylor, and women everywhere who are the victims of this kind of theft of their privacy and right to autonomy.”
The images spurred significant conversation online and on Capitol Hill this week about the need for more protections against artificial intelligence and content moderation. One the tweets with an AI-generated explicit image of the pop star remained on the platform for about 17 hours and garnered 45 million views before it was finally removed.
When asked about the incident during a press conference on Friday, White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre called the images “alarming.” Jean-Pierre called upon social media companies to more strongly enforce content moderation policies and further said Congress should take action to pass protective legislation.
“We are alarmed by the reports of the circulation of images that you laid out, false images to be more exact,” Jean-Pierre said. “While social media companies make their own independent decisions about content management, we believe they have an important role to play in enforcing their own rules to prevent the spreading of misinformation. Of course Congress should take legislative action. That’s how you deal with some of these issues.”
Swift is far from the only woman, famous or otherwise, to have been subjected to AI-generated explicit images of themselves without their permission. As Rolling Stone reported this week, while Swifties have been vocal in the need for more protections to prevent this from happening, such actions likely won’t come very easily.
AI deepfake porn is among the more disturbing uses of the technology to have hit prominent entertainment figures, though the tech’s also been used to create new material without artists’ permission. George Carlin’s estate for instance, filed a lawsuit this week over the unauthorized use of his works to make a new comedy special. The AI drake and the Weeknd song “Heart on My Sleeve” caused a significant stir last year as well, with UMG pressuring streaming platforms to take down infringing content that uses AI.
AI was one of the key negotiating points during SAG’s strike last year, and the union also gave its support the Human Artistry Campaign, an initiative from some of the most powerful music and entertainment groups in the world set on prioritizing human creativity and ensuring AI doesn’t outsource art.
Well court already ruled ai kiddie porn is not kiddie porn.
So good luck if they didn’t have an issue with kiddie porn getting them to take Taylor more seriously
Congressional acronym creators are really dropping the ball. How about the Preventing Unclothed Deepfake of Especially Notorious Divas Act?
Frankie Fane - Barney Yale ?
The Oscar - 1966
The high school story is also a little bit different.
I've seen some of the Taylor Swift deepfakes and the ones I've seen were cartoonishly over-the-top and whole AI manufactured.
The high school case had a slightly different application of AI. It used a technology marketed as "deepnude" and what this does is it takes any regular photograph and removes the clothing. And it does so in a way where the new "declothed" photo looks almost indistinguishable from an actual nude photo. The shadows, the lighting, the resolution, etc. make the photo look totally real.
The boys at the school had taken clothed photos of the girls from their various social media sites, declothed them with the "deepnude" AI app, and then circulated them around the school. So instead of a cartoonishly fake over-the-top images like we have with Swift, there were what I assume were very real-looking pics of these young girls (I did not see these photos in particular but I've seen the "deepnude" app and it's very convincing).
Someone can create the images...they just can’t profit from them.
It's almost comical looking back at that considering how thoroughly Trump broke Kathy Griffin.
Today's she's dying of lung cancer, wheezing through emphysematous, unfunny jokes to zero audiences on her "I'm gonna die soon" comedy tour.
Trump will outlive her.
I vaguely remember seeing cartoon images of famous actresses nude in National Lampoon back in the day. Later on, any idiot with Photoshop could superimpose someone’s head on a nude body. So this is only a refinement to an existing issue. Ms Swift is not the first or last victim, and there’s no way to stop the creation of the images. Only thing they can do is make it illegal to distribute or sell them. This will anger the porn industry, which, like it or not, is a huge money maker for a lot of democrats. Can’t anger a key constituency, so nothing will be done.
Thank God I didn’t click on any of that exceptionally erotic and realistic Taylor Swift AI porn. REAL MEN IMMEDIATELY AVERT THEIR EYES.
Well, you haven't seen anything until you've seen deepfake AI porn of Taylor Swift getting sodomized by Oscar the Grouch.
Yes, this was one of the pics.
SAG-AFTRA should be made illegal, says everyone not in it.
Nobody cares about the thousands of fake djt images though.
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